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Chicago, Illinois

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Wipfli is seeking an experienced Tax Manager who has managed international tax accounts and can serve multinational companies holistically across their U.S. international and domestic tax needs. This role is ideal for a client-focused leader who understands how international tax considerations connect with federal, state and local, tax provision, compliance, and broader business issues and who can coordinate specialists to deliver an integrated client experience.

Responsibilities:

• Own and manage key multinational client relationships, serving as a trusted advisor and primary point of coordination across international and domestic tax service needs.
• Lead integrated tax engagements for inbound and outbound multinational companies, with accountability for scope, quality, timelines, staffing, budgets, risk management, and client communication.
• Oversee U.S. corporate and partnership tax compliance, including Forms 1120, 1065, and 1120-F, extensions, estimated tax payments, and related elections and disclosures, as well as state and local filing requirements.
• Review complex U.S. international tax forms, computations, disclosures, and workpapers, including Forms 5471, 5472, 8858, 8865, 1118, 1042, 1042-S, 8991, 8992, and 8993, as applicable.
• Advise on inbound and outbound matters involving Subpart F, NCTI, foreign tax credits, Section 163(j), FDDEI, BEAT, Section 245A, PTEP, tax treaties, withholding, and cross-border structuring.
• Consult with clients on tax-efficient structuring of international transactions, the effective use of tax treaties, planning for foreign investment activities, and repatriation programs designed to minimize U.S. and foreign income taxes.
• Connect international tax positions to domestic tax consequences, including taxable income, attributes, estimated payments, tax accounting, transaction reporting, and state tax implications.
• Identify planning opportunities and compliance risks across the client’s full tax profile, translate technical issues into practical recommendations, and coordinate implementation with client finance teams and internal specialists.
• Collaborate with state and local tax, transfer pricing, tax provision, transaction advisory, employment tax, and other firm professionals to provide seamless service to multinational clients.
• Develop and mentor engagement teams, review work, deliver technical training, and promote consistent, scalable processes and technology-enabled service delivery.
• Support proposals, engagement scoping, fee management, and expansion of multidisciplinary relationships with existing and prospective clients.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Taxation, Finance, or a related field.
• 5+ years of relevant public accounting, law firm, or multinational corporate tax experience, including significant U.S. international tax experience.
• Demonstrated experience managing international tax accounts and advising inbound or outbound multinational companies.
• Strong working knowledge of U.S. international tax compliance and the related U.S. federal domestic tax requirements for corporations.
• Experience reviewing both international information returns and domestic income tax returns, computations, elections, disclosures, and supporting workpapers.
• Proven ability to understand a client’s broader tax profile, identify interdependencies, and coordinate specialists across multiple tax disciplines.
• Experience managing multiple engagements, client expectations, budgets, deadlines, and teams while maintaining a high standard of quality.
• Strong technical research, analytical, project management, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the judgment and executive presence to advise finance and tax leaders.

Preferred Qualifications

• CPA, JD, EA, or other relevant professional credential; master’s degree in Taxation or Accounting, JD, or LLM in Taxation preferred.
• Experience with a national, Big Four, or large regional public accounting firm serving multinational companies.
• Experience with ASC 740, transfer pricing, state and local tax coordination, cross-border transaction support, or international tax modeling.
• Experience with CCH Axcess, BNA, Checkpoint, international tax compliance software, automation, or advanced Excel modeling.

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Our commitment:

We invest in the growth of all our associates through ongoing education and career development. To learn more about how we invest in you, see our learning and development page.

We also invest in a strong work-life balance by providing benefits, such as flexible time off and wellness programs. We provide health, vision and dental insurance, generous family leave, flexible work options, 401(k) contributions and paid time off and holidays.

What you can expect:

If your resume is a fit for the position, a recruiter will reach out to you for an initial conversation so we can tell you more about Wipfli and the benefits of working here. We don’t just expect you to just answer our questions. We encourage you to ask us about Wipfli to see if we’re a good fit for you.

Employee Benefits

We also back up our mission to provide a strong work-life balance with great benefits, FTO, wellness benefits and programs to encourage a healthy lifestyle.

• Medical travel benefits

  Travel benefits to give associates across the country equitable access to quality care across a broad spectrum of needs

• Family formation benefits

  Maternity and paternity leave, surrogacy and adoption benefits, and fertility services benefits

• Gender-affirming care benefits

  Resources and benefits to help associates receive gender identity affirming interventions and therapies

• Flexible work schedule

• Flexible time off